Textbooks in browsers

Textbooks in BrowsersKathi Fletcher@kefletcher, @oerpub

bit.ly / fletcher-bib13

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@oerpub@kefletcherhttp://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13#bib13My Background

Tools for Remixing Open Education Resources Kathi Fletcher Connexions PM and Technical Director 4 YrsShuttleworth Foundation Fellow 3 Yrs

Vision for learningStudent image: By Ron player8 (On College, only for distribution.) CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

My classes and my past knowledge

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Everywhere I am, on all my devices

Content with connections

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classes, textbooks, articlesLearning content

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online, mobile, printEverywhereclasses, textbooks, articles

Books & courses in - flash cards outBirds By Pierre Dalous (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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If I have to remember a poem, then use speech to text to "grade" me. This can quiz me about when the exam is, and give me pictures of people I met at a conference to remember their names.

Learning content in - practice probs out

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How? Find definitions for flash cards.

How? Find learner's notes

How? Find exercises and problems

What is needed to achieve the vision?Common FormatRecognizable structure (definitions, exercises, etc.)

Easy to use editor for authors

Easy to extend

Publicly available books

All possible now HTML5 (language of the web)Separate structure and style

HTMLBook, TextbookHTML

EPUB3 (language of mobile web)

Browser-based technology

Create, annotate, view on the web

Content hostsGithub, Connexions

Github-Bookeditor

Principles: as much like word/gdocs as possible

Principle: support attribution

Principle: born accessibleImages, tables, mathematics

Principle: Mathematics editing support

Principle: drag and drop examples, exercises, notes

Principle: Support collaboration

About github-bookeditor Usability, accessibility

Books stored on github

Format EPUB3/HTML5 (TextbookHTML)

Edit in the browser

Open source (github.com/oerpub)

Based on Aloha

Embeddable, adaptable

View book on github

Services: PDF on demand

Services: PDF on demand

Other versions of the editor: remix.oerpub.org

Other versions of the editor: remix.oerpub.org

Connexions' version of the editor

Another adaptation: DHWriter

Try it outBookeditor (alpha): (Chrome only right now)If you don't have a github account, x out of the login and you can be anonymousDemo book opens and has some more information and linkseditor.oerpub.orgoroerpub.github.io/github-bookeditorDevelopers: github.com/oerpub/github-bookeditorgithub.com/oerpub/Aloha-Editorgithub.com/philschatz/pdf-ci

Hackday Tomorrow!Find Phil key designer, developer cnx.org

Help us integrate EPUBjs and Hypothes.is

Use vagrant to get a developer instance upand explore your own ideas to extend the editor.

October 26, San Francisco

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